by Washington Irving · Plutón Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788415089834
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«Cuentos de la Alhambra / Tales of the Alhambra» is a collection of stories by Washington Irving in paperback (512 pages, bilingual Spanish-English edition).
Stories set in the fortress palace of the Alhambra, in Granada, written by Washington Irving from 1829. The work captures the atmosphere and emotions of the monumental complex, has been compared to One Thousand and One Nights, and its author was the first of the great North American Hispanists.
It belongs to the Bilingual Classics collection, with the Spanish text accompanied page by page by its English version and includes reading comprehension and vocabulary exercises.
Suitable for English students who want to practice comparative reading and for readers interested in the classics of travel literature.
Washington Irving was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He wrote the short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of Oliver Goldsmith, Muhammad, and George Washington, as well as several histories of 15th-century Spain that deal with subjects such as the Alhambra, Christopher Columbus, and the Moors. Irving served as the American ambassador to Spain in the 1840s.
